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I want to plug in a word processing component into a .NET application that I am developing. A given user can add a comment into the this component. His/her supervisor can view and make edits to the the comment, and possibly add their own. This can go on till the highest level in the organization. As you see, the comments are being subject to a whole chain of workflow. At the same time, each user must have access to spell/grammar check as well.

Aspose has these 3 products - Aspose.Editor, Aspose.Spell and Aspose.Workflow. I was wondering if all the 3 of them could work in conjunction to provide me the functionality I am looking at. I chatted with this guy called Romank from the Aspose.Word team, and he expressed doubt whether it would be possible. Now could somebody who knows equally well about Aspose.Editor, Aspose.Spell and Aspose.Workflow let me know whether the 3 could together? Any help regarding the same would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and Regards - Brutus

Hello Brutus,

Thank you for your post!

I've forwarded this post to seek comments from other developers. Editor and Spell looks like a very natural combination, but i have to make sure of that first.

 

Best regards.

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Hi,
I'm on the Aspose.Editor team. As of version 2.0.2 Aspose.Editor doesn't integrate with Spell. We have this feature requested but I can't fortell the timeframe for it.

Kind regards,
Michael

you mean to say if I use your editor in an application, then your Aspose.Spell can't do a spell check on the stuff I write in it? Then what does it work with anyway?

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

These two products are designed for more general usage, they don't depend on each other. I think that doesn't neccessarily mean they don't work together, just not as directly as we have in a glance.

As for the commentary workflow process, it's feasible by Aspose.Workflow.

 

Kindest regards.

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I think you are not getting me correct over there. I am not looking for a single component that has the combined capabilities of Aspose.Workflow, Aspose.Editor and Aspose.Spell. Suppose that I purchase all these 3 products separately, then can't I use Aspose.Spell to check the spellings in Aspose.Editor? And if I want to subject the documents created using Aspose.Editor to a document review kind of workflow that takes place in a publishing company, then can't I use Aspose.Workflow to achieve that? I hope I am clear this time.

 

Regards - Brutus

I also had another question regarding your Aspose.Workflow product. Is it possible to track a history of changes to an object as it proceeds along the workflow chain. Say for instance, if I one user makes a change to a document that was made by another user, is is possible to store the original contents of the document in a history log? That way I can track all changes that were made to a document till it's final approval and acceptance.

Do let me know if that is possible.

Regards - Brutus.

Any news on this feature? Seems like an obvious and useful extension to write.

Currently we have licensed the Aspose.Spell library and the Telerik spell checker. Unfortunately both are going to require some sort of custom integration to be usable by Aspose.Editor, if it is possible at all. The documentation claims 3rd party integration, but does not really layout in much detail how to go about it. With the Aspose team's obvious advantage from a product knowledge perspective, it would make the most sense for Aspose to integrate Aspose.Spell with Aspose.Editor.

mf:

Hi,
I'm on the Aspose.Editor team. As of version 2.0.2 Aspose.Editor doesn't integrate with Spell. We have this feature requested but I can't fortell the timeframe for it.

Kind regards,
Michael

Hi Mark,
thanks for your interest in Aspose products!

Latest release of Aspose.Editor can be integrated with custom spell checker including Aspose.Spell and provide stand-alone check. Spell-as-you-type feature will not be available with Aspose.Spell. It is available from Keyoti and may be available from Telerik (I haven't checked this).

I hope I'll have time for implementing custom command which provides this integration.

P.S. If you don't want to wait and are willing to try it yourself I'll do my best to help you. It's quite easy (~1.5KLOC).

Kind regards,
Michael

I'm not certain how much time I'll have to work on this, but if I do have time I will give it a shot. Where is the best place to start/look for how to go about coding the integration? Thanks.

Dear Mark,
attached is a project you can start from. I've done almost everything required. Please feel free to tailor it to your needs. If you find bugs in code please fix them. If you find bugs in spell or editor, please talk to appropriate team.

If you will improve the code I'll be glad to have copy of it so it can be shared among customers.

P.S. There is one limitation. When editor is not focused selection is not displayed. You can't do anything about it in the current release.

Kind regards,
Michael

Thanks. I will try to take a look at this in the next couple of weeks.

I have taken a look at your demo and I see how it is working for a WinForm application, but I am missing something for how to integrate it into an ASP.NET application. The adapter's install method takes an EditorControl to attach the menu options to. To do the same for ASP.NET I would need to be able to reference the EditorControl in Aspose.Editor.Client, which I cannot do from the web server. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Somehow this would need to be done via client code. So do I need to create my own assembly with the aspose spell adapter in it, and deploy it similar to how the existing Aspose.Editor.Client is deployed by putting an object tag in the code and then using javascript to pass the editor control to an install method in that assembly? I'm treading on some new ground here, so if I'm entirely off the mark please say so.

Mark,
you are correct. In the ASP.NET application for this to work you'll need to use the approach you are describing. This is how it works in the web demo, you can take a look there.

Coming release of the Aspose.Editor among many new features supports plug-in assemblies which in case of an ASP.NET application will get automatically downloaded to the client and run. This will remove the need for java script on the client. You can wait for this release since it should be available during this month.

Kind regards,
Michael

 

Do you have an estimate of when this new release will be out? You had mentioned the end of April, but looks like that has not happened yet.

Thanks.